Job 21:4
As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
In Context
3Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.
5Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
Cross References
Exodus 6:9Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
2 Kings 6:26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
Job 7:11“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:2I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
Psalms 77:3I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
Matthew Henry on Job 21:2-7
The Reply of Job to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But Job answered and said, 2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. 3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? 5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. 6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. Job here recommends himself, both his case and his discourse, both what he… Read the whole commentary →